We got sent/lent a box of sample/random jerseys from champ-sys to check out sizing and the two different cuts they did at the time for traditional 3 pocket jerseys etc. (no idea if anyone else does this but its a great idea) this meant we all ordered right sizes first time and is quite useful considering it was £40+ for a jersey and same for shorts. Btw my £40 champ sys bibshorts are comfier than my £60 gore and £70 assos ones. One other local massive club (hundreds rather than dozens of members) has also used champ sys for several big orders over several years (they recommended them to us) so they must be doing something right!
Mrs wilson’s team kit is from pro vision and is maybe a bit less money and the second order they did with them took aaaaaaaages to arrive (as in 6weeks later than quoted, i got the impression that they are a far smaller operation so perhaps more susceptible to the vagaries of having few orders on and then a load all at once) but the kit itself seems ok. She got the racier jersey from them which is all meshy/venty and has those funny gummy-on-the-inside panels (as opposed to strips like the bottom of a jersey) on the sleeves to stop your armwarmers falling down. She likes it very much.

Like the “builder” on their party political broadcast, he looks far too clean to be any kind of hard grafting honest type, perhaps they laid him off as he wasn’t getting as dusty as his polish colleagues. Still they also said we need one house built every seven seconds to house all these foreigners. I am sure construction business will pick up in that case.

A mate’s prophet did the same on the drive side. Betd fixed it and iirc they were not at all suprised at it being a(nother) prophet! Great repair job from them and they are great frames, even if they wont honour the warranty, i would certainly put another £60 in to keep it going if it was mine. If they did warranty it would they repair or replace, and if so what with? They dont make a 26″ 140mm ish frame any more, the trigger is a 650b but also has a bb30 not threaded one like yours.
It would be interesting to see how ‘lifetime’ their warranty turns out to be! (Speaking as someone well within the weight limit of his purchased-new cannondale, and already in posession of a warrantied bb on it….) please keep us posted about how you get on with them.

Nothing much to add except what a great thread this is. :D

Kernow King not impressed by sound quality or accents.

And he would know, some bleddy fine Roche boy innum.

There is a bigger drug and alcohol rehab unit in a nice big leafy suburb on the edge of town. Knowing the service a little bit (as a professional) i would be quite comfortable living right by it, never mind 250 yards away. Find out if this is the first such project this organisation has run or whether they are experienced in this, also whether they are doing the detoxing bits there or taking people who are already on the wagon.

Stella over here is as belgian as carling.
I also thought that i fancy a change of career. Apparently we need a new house built every 7 seconds and there was hardly a speck of dust on that builder they had on. I am in the wrong job!

I bodged a removal tool from some tube, cut slots in and splayed out the ends. Like a smaller version of a headset removal tool. If the bearings collapse and you are left with just the outer race stuck in then you will need a proper blind bearing puller as they sit in ‘blind’ holes in the downtube. Btw the collet pivot bolt/axle that holds it all together is really neat.

Dydno-rod aside (wine plus absence of pre-written spin, i am sure), I also doubt cameron is likening muslim or hindu vales to conservative political ones, or likening welfare reform and the big society to the teachings or actions of mohammad or krishna.

But ninfan you were just reminding us how many of us really are christian according to the last census. Imagine upsetting the compassionate and selfless christian values of even a small proportion of them…. How many hindus and muslims were there on that census you quoted again?
[edit] saved you the trouble going back one page: if i was cameron identifying that religious leaders were taking umbrage to my policies, i would rather be unsettling the 2.7 million next largest religious group you identified in your link than the 33 million christians we apparently have.

Thank heavens ( see what i did there) Cameron has the backing of the church of England. Oh, apart from the forty five bishops(that is over half of all of the c of e bishops in post at the present time, fact fans) who signed an open letter about food banks and what they see as a welfare crisis, that is. That loony leftist rag the telegraph even dared to insinuate that this might be one factor in his recent outpourings of christian values….

Telegraph

Ninfan, is Cameron not risking votes reminding all those christians how christian they really are, when so many christian leaders are such a thorn in his side?

It’s nice not having the little thumb thingys. Tiagra also has little shifter windows built in which is rather sweet. Subject to cables, chain/cassette wear etc, it also seems to shift as nicely as my wife’s older 10sp 105, and my even older 9sp DA.
If you are not getting the matching brakes you would do well to make sure the cable pull is the same as your old brakes/shifters; every so often shimano ‘upgrade’ this too meaning you have to compromise on brake feel or spend more money. :evil: Google will find you a chart that lists ‘compatibilty’. They all work, just some a lot nicer than others.

We cannot not be a christian country under the present constitution which ties us to the church of england and the monarchy.
This is of course getting very out of touch with the electorate who over the last 150 years are assuredly less inclined to go to church, pray and have a personal relationship with JC.

I also understand that the leader of a country with the C of E so wrapped up in its constitution should be expected to make some press in the middle of Holy Week (after all its more important than christmas for proper christians, non?)

Sadly much of this this reeks of opportunism on Cameron’s part. I would like to have heard Justin Welby comment more on this story (well perhaps he did but it wasn’t soundbite-worthy enough. I would imagine that Welby’s predecessor would have had something contentious to say along the lines of politicians cherry-picking the bits of christianity Jesus’ teachings that fit their agendas (humility, be thankful for what the lord hath given thee) and leaving out the bits that don’t (unconditional love of thy neighbour or anyone else’s neighbour, redistribution of riches, turn the other cheek etc).

[edit] re-read that and i sound like a right god-botherer! FWIW I am a well-read ‘backslider’ ;) . Fond of the values, not so fond of the church.

Great news Les :D

which model/number xt hub?
my experience is that the freehub side gets dirtier inside sooner than the nds. But I have also heeded advice from here to steer clear of later xt hubs so have stuck to old centerlock lx and xt m765 (in centerlock and 6 bolt flavour, the insides are near enough the same anyway) -and more recently an slx hub with more clicky sounding freehub which is behaving itself though to be fair hasn’t yet had the battering the last one got. (all weathers singlespeed, cheaper to buy a whole new hub than find a replacement freehub)

FWIW i find a rear cup and cone hub on a mountain bike that gets muddy a lot has a totally different life to one on a bike that gets dirty on the road.

Linking the big society to Jesus is a bit rich IMO. JC would have clearly been a proper bleeding heart lefty and seen straight through the hijacking of christian (and indeed other folks/religions/communities) principles of compassion and forgiveness as a shallow excuse to absolve the government of as much responsibility as possible for its most vulnerable and voice-less citizens.
If cameron is the christian he claims to be, he must be rehearsing a pretty hefty deathbed confession/absolution!

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I’m really surprised the weights are so similar.

My wife’s bike has the same rims as the giant, they are massive! I reckon if you switched wheelsets on those two they weights would be a lot less similar!
But I would still keep the cdf.

my cleats rock a bit in the pedals (not new though) Doesn’t really bother me. My oldest crappest set of spds has started to rock on the spindles though, I guess they will be on their way out then (still, 8 years and no servicing!). Grasp your pedal in hand and give it a wiggle to see if its the cleat/mechanism or the spindle/bearings…

Bah, we have actual toys at our work. My favourite one this week is a bit like this:

Old folks round our way still refer to debenhams as ‘spooners’ -the department store that inhabited the building 40 years ago. In deference to this, i have begun to call all shops the name they had when i was little, so house of fraser is still Dingles, our 2 tesco metros nearby are gateway and esso, and when they build that new morrisons i will still be calling it superbowl. :D

Put some 170mm 66’s on it (2005/6 for optimum price-to-reliability, 07/08/09 were iirc the unreliable years), try not to think that they weigh 2.8kilos, some proper big sticky tyres (maybe on wider rims that 219’s!!) and you’ll be reet. Good fun bike, and unless you are already downhill-racing standard, the rider will be the limitation not the bike. Certainly is with mine.

Iolo, last week the government released three statements of “good news” on the same day (in the same hour in fact!) as the 32 second apology. I guess to divert as much attention away from her. Maybe the ruse is to help everyone forget tat the chancellor of the exchequer also made 440k pure profit from flipping his homes too. As if he needs an extra 440 k!

^^ its a “simply must have latest greatest hub standard” tax. I love salsa but i wondered if they or the distributor priced them that way for a giggle to see if anyoune would actually buy them. The whole frame is only two and a half times as much, and subtract £50 for the maxle that comes with them and they are still £35 more per side[/i] than the rrp for qr ones.

Otherwise, those open-mould carbon rims for $999 on the front page make you wonder what warranty and margins do to make some of the other stuff on this thread cost so much…

but more recently:

is pretty much the perfect villain (well, until he gets caught that is!) with the villainous perfect back story.

Iirc one reason shimano and campag stick with cup amd cone for wheel hubs is because they can! ie the tooling etc for these hubs only makes financial sense if you produce in big enough volumes. Ck, hope etc don’t make anything like as many hubs as similar xt/xtr/ultegra/DA.
Amazing how well even busget c&c hubs keep rolling with minimal service if they don’t get muddy. Rebuilt a wheel on my commuter recently which has a deore rear hub on: eight years, thousands and thousands of miles and one service on it where i don’t think i even changed the bearings and i thought since i was putting another rim on it might be time to service the hub again- still fine! Threads like these always produce similar tales of ancient shimano hubs going strong.

Problem is mud isn’t it? Service and ball life of same hub is just way way less if it is muddy and washed frequently. Also shimano did themselves no favours with poor 20mm hubs which had pretty average sealing and needed daft spanners to get into them, pointless bearing cage and no way of holding the axle properly to adjust the nds cone and tighten up again unless you butchered the axle or bought their hideously expensive split collet service tool. Never owned one of theit 15mm hubs but i hope they put some kind of spanner flats in it. Also iirc later xt hubs had a tendency to unwind or overtighten themselves. Happily you can still get m765 hubs and newer slx which IME are both excellent and pretty well selaed.

Tf tuned used to do courses for suspension. Somerset iirc.

If you mean 10 mm through-axle then no. You could replace the qr axle with a nutted one ( like on a cheap or old bike) easily enough which is a faff and requires a 15 mm spanner to take the wheel off, but a bit stiffer than qr. i woudnt bother though, you can get a superstar hub and have them supply it with 10 mm adapters for no extra cost.

Old dmr trailstar or sidekick, both had slots and a mech hanger iirc. Actually thinking about it some other early noughties jumpy bikes might fit that bill. Identiti dr jekyll might have had slot dropouts too. Also commencal maxmax came in cromo and alloy flavours with various dropouty bits, and specialized P1 might have come in steel at one point as well. Or for sliding dropouts with gear hangers, you could widen search to voodoo wanga ( not the newest one which is alloy but the older red ones) or kona explosif: they wiuld be a bit lighter than an inbred and much lighter than old jump frames.

looks like there is enough room where its locked up for you to nip out with an allen key and turn the fork the right way round… and see if he notices anything. However the bike also has a crown-mounted mudguard that will be fouled by a reverse arch fork the correct way round: perhaps the owner wanted the mudgard on so turned the fork round to fit it? :?:

There were 2 different sizes of fsa external bb’s too. If its eight years old it might just be the older one with a smaller internal diameter/crank spindle (as opposed to the ‘normal’ shimano/raceface sized one). Get thee in the garage and have a measure before you order anything.

Nhs data, badger cull and plain packaging for fags stories all announced by this government on the same day as the maria millier story and laughable excuse for an apoogy. In fact, all within an hour of each other according to the telegraph. Fantastic! :evil:

Never broken one and not any harder to build a new wheel with in my experience, but they fur up like an old kettle (presumably oxidisation) and get stuck or at least sticky, so harder to work with if you ever need to retention or straighten the wheel later on., this is where you risk rounding of breaking one. You lose a bit of rotating weight and get to have funky colours though. Nevertheless if it was me I would use brass.

Strava gave me an average speed of 500mph or so when I went for a quick razz in the woods near me and somehow went to Belgium whilst I was out. But it was when the ‘dirt search’ competition was on last summer, and according to that I logged zero miles on road out of my 560 mile ride, so I can’t have been speeding officah!
I always wondered about trespassing really. Not being on a bike on a footpath but being somewhere with no rights of way at all, or worse (thinking railway or mod land sort of stuff)

Never broken a frame. ooh, that’s jinxed it!

I found it this morning too. There is a site called “phishing watch” or something similar which has a flag up for the totally unrelated site the fake eBay login page is hosted on. The site is an otherwise-legit looking one for a company that detects underground cables for construction industry, so I assume that they have been hacked as well. I couldn’t find a way of reporting it to eBay since the redirect to the phishing page was within a second of loading the listing page itself. (Safari on iPad) so I sent a message to the seller ( ie whoever maintains Planet X eBay account) to tell them.

[edit] just had another look. I am now getting a 404 message from the underground cables page as opposed to a very convincing looking eBay login page hosted by them. So perhaps the host site has fixed something from their end. Not bad for a relatively small weekday company on a Saturday afternoon. What a pity the 24/7 internet giants ebay don’t seem to have been as quick off the blocks. :?

I have one like that on my bike (jag wire cables) and I just put a bit of grease on the end of the inner cable and slid it on. If you rotate the cable the same way as it is braided that helps, as does the cable being new or cut with very sharp cutters.

Car garage/body repair place near us has the slogan “you bend em, we mend em.”
McIndians fast food place in Leicester always used to have the cowboys and Indians gag too. :D

Iirc there is a stand up comedian who collects these and uses them in her act.

Renaud.
Sebastien Tellier
Apollinaire

Alternatively:
John Smith
Will Self
Bill Drummond.

I often make them on purpose for my own childish amusement. A favourite being ‘flavour’ as substitute for type, category, subject etc. However, one genuine mis-speak (copyright Bill Clinton ;) ) was when describing an excellent and very thorough diligent colleague who also has a lazy eye: I said “ooh, don’t worry about her doing that report for you, she will dot the t’s and cross the i’s.” :oops:

Also be aware that there are recommended minimum tyre widths for rim sizes as well as maximum. There is a chart for his on Sheldon Brown website; if you have wider rims you should fit narrower tyres with caution. I thought it was a bit ott, but then mrs kept puncturing (even a couple of snakebites. On the front, and she is 9 st wet through!) 25mm gatorskins on her 19mm internal diameter rims whilst same tyres on my narrower rims and under a considerably heavier rider were fine. She has put 28’s on and feels just as fast and no flats so far.